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Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips
Buttons, badges and pins stand for a medium which is often underestimated and not taken seriously. That's a pity, because designed properly, badges and buttons can effectively communicate ideas to your... More... 53 Comments
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Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices
Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the... More... 109 Comments
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Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way. Jakob Nielsen, the maestro of usability, postulated few years ago that "recognition... More... 170 Comments
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RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog's popularity and its success in the... More... 149 Comments
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Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates
Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they're actually... More... 308 Comments
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Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up
Web 2.0 is beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you... More... 173 Comments
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More Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free
We continue to collect best freeware and stock symbols, buttons and icons. Here are few sets we've stumbled upon over the last few weeks. IconCool collects Icons for Windows XP. There are 16 icon... More... 65 Comments
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Online Generators
One can discuss whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they don't challenge our creativity, but on the other hand they make our life easier and save our precious time. However, it... More... 170 Comments
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Design Patterns: Download Buttons
In the era of Web 2.0 download-buttons are becoming more and more important. Grey and simple few years ago, now they’ve become bigger, more colourful and come in dozens of variations. As the... More... 17 Comments
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Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free
We’ve all been there: sitting in front of a new design layout, we realize that something doesn’t fit, is even disturbing, but we have no idea what it is and how we should improve the... More... 58 Comments
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